Sentences with phrase «patients more incentive»

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There are a lot of built - in incentives for both providers and patients to opt for more expensive treatments instead of cheaper but equally effective ones, because after all «my insurance will cover it».

Stage two was to widen diversity of supply to create new incentives for better local performance and more choice for patients - a success story in achieving the shortest ever waiting times including meeting our commitment to less than eighteen weeks from doctor's appointment to hospital treatment, and improving the management of NHS resources through foundation hospitals and the use of the private sector.

But we must do far more to make sure that NHS organisations and incentives are truly responsive to patients while supporting clinicians in keeping people healthy.

They discuss the implications of their findings for policy and research, including the need for further studies to modify the risks associated with increased BMI and studies helping to support the risk stratification for reimbursement, providing financial incentives for surgeons treating more complex and high - risk patients.

Their findings show that care for older patients was no better at hospitals that had been operating under pay for performance programs for more than a decade compared with those which had only been under financial incentives for less than three years.

Over the course of the study, nearly 40,000 gift cards were dispensed to more than 9,000 patients at care clinics that offered financial incentives.

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine suspected that doctors treating Medicare patients would have a financial incentive to prescribe a more costly drug.

Limited time to spend with patients, fear of being sued and financial incentives to do more were among the reasons cited by the physicians.

«Freshness includes features that enable patients to share and get new insights from their data, get remote support from a care team, and even incentives that can keep them coming back for more,» de Haaff told TechNewsWorld.

For example, clinics could increase efforts to accept a wider variety of insurance plans, including hiring dedicated staff to focus on credentialing and billing issues — and they have new incentives to do so because more of their patients are insured as a result of the ACA.22 State and federal Medicaid officials, too, could address many reimbursement issues for postabortion contraception.